categorizing

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Apps are great for tracking spending and automatically categorizing — making it easy to see that you spent this much more on food than clothes, or what you’re putting toward subscriptions.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Agencies must submit “contingency plans” categorizing which employees are essential on a standardized worksheet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Betts was kept out of the lineup on Tuesday, Roberts categorizing the day off as “more of a mental day.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

That's the lower limit of categorizing objects on the Torino Scale.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2025

Stopping before the narrow garage, he sniffed the fumes from Paradise with great sensory pleasure, the protruding hairs in his nostrils analyzing, cataloguing, categorizing, and classifying the distinct odors of hot dog, mustard, and lubricant.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole